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Paul Olstad

Paul Olstad

Here you’ll find information about me including my resume, background, personal and other information. In my present position at the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, I manage the Software Engineering Department for http://www.marketwatch.com. MarketWatch is a high traffic website with more that 15 Million page views per day. In my previous position at Park Nicollet Health Services I managed the Web Development team and focused on http://www.parknicollet.com. I was also responsible for the development of all custom Intranet and Internet applications, sites, web server administration and web hosting services.

Web 2.0 - The Next Generation of the Internet
I dug up this old blog post that I had a few years ago. Actually, it was a series of articles I wrote for the Park Nicollet I.T. Communicator Newsletter and I decided to concatenate them and create a single blog post. While I consider much of it passé now, the concepts still hold true making it an interesting post. I hope some of it resonates with you. More...

Web Oriented Architecture (WOA)
Is Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) the pragmatic solution to SOA? Technologies like RSS, REST, etc. have become much more pervasive in software development. And it seems that SOA architectures that focus on WSDL/SOAP and ESBs were a product of academia for far too long. More...

Web 2.0 in Healthcare (Mashups)
With the recent hype surrounding 'Web 2.0', I'm surprised that there's hardly any mention of it in the Healthcare space. Let's consider the recent phenomenon of "mashups". A mashup is a web site or Web 2.0 application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service. Content used in mashups is typically consumed from loosely coupled data like RSS, REST, XML or APIs. More...

My Blog
I'm very interested in Web 2.0 technology, AJAX, Social Networking and Music. My blog is dedicated to this and has several related posts that you be interested in. Take a look at - http://paulolstad.blogspot.com to read more.